egalitarianism
belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, social, or economic life.
active promotion of this belief.
Origin of egalitarianism
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How to use egalitarianism in a sentence
If we could tap that potential, and we could make egalitarianism essentially truly a self-perpetuating cultural unit that also preserves itself, then it’ll stay around.
The Math That Says Egalitarianism Is Possible - Issue 104: Harmony | Brian Gallagher | August 11, 2021 | NautilusI brought up Bezos, and then asked Hooper to explain what, at bottom, fuels the possibility of egalitarianism in the first place, beginning with how he defines the term.
The Math That Says Egalitarianism Is Possible - Issue 104: Harmony | Brian Gallagher | August 11, 2021 | NautilusMerely pointing to evolutionary influences behind a disposition toward egalitarianism, for example, doesn’t show that your reasons for judging gender discrimination to be wrong aren’t in fact good ones or that you lack knowledge of that wrongness.
Are We Cut Out for Universal Morality? - Issue 100: Outsiders | William J. FitzPatrick | May 26, 2021 | NautilusTo Brennan, the Constitution exemplified “the aspiration to social justice, brotherhood, and human dignity that brought this nation into being,” even if “this egalitarianism in America has been more pretension than realized fact.”
Xavier Becerra is the victim of the right’s distortion of Catholicism | Duncan Hosie | March 19, 2021 | Washington PostTrebek’s performance as host emphasized this egalitarianism.
Remembering Alex Trebek, The Man With All The Answers | Oliver Roeder | November 9, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
People were attracted to early Christianity by its compassionate egalitarianism.
Karen Armstrong’s New Rule: Religion Isn’t Responsible for Violence | Patricia Pearson | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNo one knows where it came from—just like the myth of Scottish egalitarianism.
Scotland’s ‘Yes’ Campaign and the Myth of Scottish Equality | Noah Caldwell | September 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor a mere generation, UK-wide public policy had matched the notion of Scottish egalitarianism, at least moderately.
Scotland’s ‘Yes’ Campaign and the Myth of Scottish Equality | Noah Caldwell | September 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd how has the Scottish myth of egalitarianism survived two and a half centuries of severe inequality?
Scotland’s ‘Yes’ Campaign and the Myth of Scottish Equality | Noah Caldwell | September 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut in America, born free of any aristocracy, the arrival of modernism and egalitarianism was a far more gentle affair.
The Fair Play settlers were eighteenth-century souls and romantic egalitarianism was not a characteristic of such persons.
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 | George D. Wolf
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